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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MATT SHAKMAN
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BRIAN DENNEHY IS A LEGENDARY INTERPRETER OF EUGENE O’NEILL’S work—and a Tony winner for his volcanic Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey Into Night. These men would have understood each other. They would have laughed, argued, brawled and commiserated, drinking late into the night at some Irish bar on the Lower East Side. But they were born in different ages and so we can only experience their bond through the theatre—that magical connection between actor and writer. The same can be said for Samuel Beckett—the pathos and humor of this Irish playwright sits just right in Dennehy’s bones. Why do Hughie and Krapp’s Last Tape go together? One, a naturalistic story of a downon-his-luck gambler mourning the loss of his only friend. The other, an abstract story of a man taking stock of his life in a liminal space surrounded by the recordings he’s made over the years. Both are meditations on mortality, of course. Krapp and Erie know that they are shuffling off their mortal coil and are wondering what their lives have meant. They look back with regret and look forward with trepidation. Both grapple with the loneliness of a life-lived-poorly—Erie feeling as empty in the worn rooming house lobby as Krapp does in Beckett’s stark void. And then there is the surprising humanity in these two pieces. These are funny plays. Like Lear, Erie and Krapp stare into the whirlwind and laugh. Brian Dennehy has devoted his life to interpreting the great works of the theatrical canon. To see a giant of the stage tackle two legendary writers is beyond special. And to do so in this intimate space, mere feet from the action? Well, there is nothing better than that. My sincere thanks to director Steve Robman for brilliantly guiding these two productions and to his extraordinary actors—including the remarkable Joe Grifasi and Armin Shimerman— and incredible designers. Enjoy the show and hope to see you at the next one!
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Thank you for joining us for Hughie & Krapp’s Last Tape. Starring the inimitable Brian Dennehy, these shows remind us of the power of using one’s voice. Beyond our stages, a range of Education and Community Engagement programs foster individual voices throughout L.A. Our Literacy Project is an in-depth, year-long, in-school initiative that is serving the entire 10th grade class at Mendez High School in Boyle Heights and Jordan High School in Watts this year. With a focus on critical thinking, creativity and writing, the program gives each student the skills to express ideas and the confidence to find their voice. The generosity of the Geffen community is what makes these life-changing programs and our world-class productions possible. Thank you for your participation and enjoy the show!
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REVISITING THE PLAYS OF OUR PAST An interview with director Steven Robman
By Rachel Wiegardt-Egel
AT A RUNDOWN HOTEL IN EUGENE O’NEILL’S HUGHIE, Erie Smith mourns the death of his friend Hughie and attempts to regale the hotel’s new night clerk with stories of his conquests and gambling victories. Though Erie misses his friend and hopes for connection, the play is in many ways a portrait of an unexamined life. In Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Krapp sits in his den on his birthday and listens to a recording he made 30 years prior—a moment in which we see a life thoroughly, mercilessly examined. In the first week of rehearsals for the double bill of Hughie and Krapp’s Last Tape, I chatted with director Steven Robman about his early conversations on the play with actors Brian Dennehy and Joe Grifasi and the
gether before, both these one acts are often performed as standalone pieces. What do you see as some of the similarities that make these plays a good match? Steven Robman: We come to the theater to watch a story being told. But, interestingly enough, in both of these plays, the action is literally the telling of a story. I don’t mean in the conventional sense of an audience sitting there piecing together a plot as the play moves along. I mean the characters are actually spinning yarns—and that’s one of the reasons I’m drawn to this bill. As I get older, the need for storytelling has become more and more interesting to me. It’s such a consistent thing among cultures. And when I was looking at these plays, I realized that there is a confessional component to both of them. In fact, the form the story takes in both
ways these two pieces speak to one another.
cases is very much a confession. This made
Rachel Wiegardt-Egel: Though Brian Denne-
is a confession. Whether the story is about the
hy has performed this particular pairing to-
person who’s relating it or about someone else,
me wonder if virtually every telling of a story
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the telling of the story bespeaks its importance to the person who’s telling it, which means it’s an examination of the values that person has. Even if I simply tell you about six silly things my brother did, I inevitably reveal how I feel about my brother. I don’t know if I could defend this idea in a PhD dissertation, but I’m saying that you might make the argument that every story is a kind of confession. That, to me, linked these two plays together and interested me to the point of wanting to evoke the imagery and iconography of a confessional booth in some of the details of the set. There’s a lobby of a pretty threadbare hotel in Hughie and a slightly nondescript dank basement in Krapp’s Last Tape. But we are hoping to suggest a sense of the confessional in each of the plays. There’s both solace and penance in the confessional notion, and whenever we have two things like that that are fighting with each other—on the one hand, comfort, and on the other hand, punishment— that’s good for theater. If you can figure out a way to evoke that tension graphically or cer-
tainly in the emotional content of what you’re doing—you’re on to something there, because your audience is going to get caught in that. They’re going to sway one way or the other and we’re hoping they will lean in and wonder how things will resolve. RW: Do you find there are differences between the two pieces that an audience perhaps wouldn’t feel to the same extent if they were performed separately? SR: Yes. In Hughie, the main character Erie cracks a lot of jokes. There is a desperation underneath and we hope you’ll smell that as well, but Erie can be pretty amusing. He’s a smalltime gambler who’s been on a four-day bender and lives in a cheap hotel where he’s probably been for 15 years and he’s got one suit and it’s a mess. He’s not a gangster—that would be too lofty a term—but more of a raconteur who commits some smalltime truancies from time to time. There are a lot of laughs and there is a cautiously optimistic end to the
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play. In Krapp’s Last Tape, Beckett very cleverly lays a trap, in a way, because we have a lot of fun for 10-15 minutes with some almost burlesque, circus-like business that occurs before we start to understand the compelling reason why this man is down in his basement listening to his tape recorder. But in the end, it would be hard to say that particular play is cautiously optimistic. Despite the fact that both plays have their humorous sides, Krapp’s Last Tape is a darker, more brooding examination of a man’s plight. What’s interesting to me in presenting the two plays together is how the need to confess—and, really, to redeem oneself—can take such different forms. RW: How are you and the actors working to mine the humor and the pathos in these characters? SR: Brian’s done the plays before and he brings to the table all the experience of having previously worked on them—not to mention the life experience of it having been ten years since he did them last. He and I first worked together 40 years ago. We did a play by Ron Hutchinson called Says I Says He Off-Broadway—which somebody at the Taper saw, and we did it at the Taper the following season. In that play, Joe Grifasi [who plays the Night Clerk in Hughie] and Brian and I worked together for the first time. I knew Joe from drama school but I didn’t know Brian before then. And we have thought a little bit about the fact that this is inadvertently the 40-year anniversary of us first working together. So all of us bring that sort of—the whiskers on your life, so to speak—to it. And the fact that we’re kind of jokesters together obviously affects the mix. We try to have some fun in rehearsals—not hard with these two guys. RW: Do you remember what you thought of these plays when you first encountered them? SR: I remember seeing Krapp’s Last Tape when
I was a young graduate student—I saw a student production. I had no idea what the hell was going on, no idea whatsoever. Now, mind you, it was a 25-year-old graduate student in age makeup who was performing it, which may have somewhat impeded my understanding of what was happening. But I remember, in my innocence, just not getting the point of the play. As far as Hughie goes, I read it before I ever saw a production. And I remember thinking, “Wow, what a wonderful mouthful for someone.” The other thing that struck me was the very, very extensive stage directions about what the Night Clerk is thinking in the play. That character has about a dozen lines and Erie Smith, the main character, has 50 minutes of dialogue. Some productions have gone as far as letting the Night Clerk speak some of the stage directions. In others, the actor records that stuff and it is played back quietly in the gaps between the main character’s speeches. But I’m not messing with that in this production. RW: Is there anything else that you’d like the audience to know about what you’ve been chewing on in the initial rehearsals? SR: Brian brought up an interesting fact that I had not seen pointed out before. O’Neill wrote Hughie in 1942, but it was not performed until 1958. Krapp’s Last Tape was written and premiered in 1958. So, we’re talking about plays that both opened in the same year and not that long after a major world conflagration that included the first use of atomic weapons. If you wanted to extend the sociopolitical component of literary criticism, you could point to each as a response to the post-World War II battle with fatalism that generated all sorts of darker points of view in the world. You wonder whether in both cases these plays are responses to the sense of things being no longer under the easy control of human beings. To read more about Hughie & Krapp’s Last Tape, please visit blog.geffenplayhouse.org. GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 7
THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE PRODUCTION OF
WRITTEN BY
Eugene O’Neill
WRITTEN BY
Samuel Beckett SCENIC DESIGNER
COSTUME DESIGNER
Sibyl Wickersheimer
Leah Piehl
LIGHTING DESIGNER
SOUND DESIGNER
Daniel Ionazzi
Cricket S. Myers PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
Young Ji
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Steven Robman OPENING NIGHT WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2018 Hughie is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Krapp’s Last Tape is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS CIRCLE MEMBERS
Laurie & Bill Benenson • Martha Henderson • Pamela Robinson Hollander & Robert Hollander Loretta Everett Kaufman & Victor Kaufman • Linda Bernstein Rubin & Tony Rubin Kimberly Steward & Josh Godfrey • Miranda & Brett Tollman 8 PLAYBILL
HUGHIE CAST (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) Erie Smith ................................................................................... Brian Dennehy* Night Clerk (11/5-11/25) ............................................................... Joe Grifasi* Night Clerk (11/27-12/16) ............................................ Armin Shimerman* TIME/SETTING Between 3 and 4 a.m. on a day in the summer of 1928 in New York City.
KRAPP’S LAST TAPE CAST Krapp ............................................................................................ Brian Dennehy* *Indicates member of Actor’s Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
TIME A late evening.
RUNNING TIME Approximately 2 hours. There will be one 15 minute intermission.
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PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES
BRIAN DENNEHY (Erie Smith / Krapp) Broadway credits include Desire Under the Elms, Inherit the Wind (with Christopher Plummer), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Tony Award for Best Actor), Death of a Salesman (Tony Award for Best Actor) and Translations. Off-Broadway, he appeared in Richard Nelson’s Conversations in Tesculum at the Public Theater, The Cherry Orchard at Brooklyn Academy of Music and Says I Says He at Phoenix Theatre. At the Goodman Theatre, he appeared in Hughie, Krapp’s Last Tape, Desire Under the Elms, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, A Touch of the Poet, The Iceman Cometh and Galileo. Regionally, he appeared in Endgame at Long Wharf Theatre, Twelfth Night, The Homecoming, All’s Well That Ends Well, Hughie and Krapp’s Last Tape at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and Rat in the Skull at Wisdom Bridge Theatre. He appeared in London’s West End in Death of a Salesman (Olivier Award for Best Actor). Recent film appearances include The Seagull opposite Annette Bening and Tag with Jon Hamm and Isla Fisher. Recent television appearances include Hap and Leonard and NBC’s Blacklist. Mr. Dennehy was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2010. 10 PLAYBILL
JOE GRIFASI (Night Clerk – 11/5-11/25) Most recently Endgame at Long Wharf Theatre, Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Encores! revival of Little Shop of Horrors. Broadway shows include The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dinner at Eight, Accidental Death of an Anarchist and Happy End by Bertolt Brecht, Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill. Off-Broadway: The Boys Next Door (Drama Desk Award), Says I Says He and Golden Boy. Other credits: Once in a Lifetime and Room Service (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Suicide in B Flat and Are You Now or Have You Ever Been (Yale Repertory Theatre). Directing credits include One Slight Hitch by Lewis Black, A Cup of Coffee by Preston Sturges and As I Remember It (Wallis Annenberg Center). Joe has appeared in over fifty feature films including The Deer Hunter, Presumed Innocent, The Naked Gun, Benny & Joon, Matewan, FX and Natural Born Killers. Television appearances include Lodge 49, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Bull, The Good Wife and Law & Order.
ARMIN SHIMERMAN (Night Clerk – 11/27-12/16) Highly-regarded actor and B.F.A. professor for Shakespeare at USC. Broadway: Joe Papp’s Three Penny Opera, Circle-in-the-Square’s St. Joan, Richard Rodgers’ I Remember Mama and George Abbott’s Broadway. Regional theater credits include Lear’s Fool, Marius in Fugard’s Road to Mecca and the blind Irishman in Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer for which he won the San Diego Critics Circle Award for Best Actor (San Diego Repertory Theater); Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Merry Wives of Windsor (San Diego Old Globe); Henry V (American Shakespeare Festival); Hoagy, Bix, Wolfgang Beethoven Bunkhouse (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Three Penny Opera, Camille, Wild Oats and just last year Fool in King Lear (Guthrie Theatre). Los Angeles theater: Discord at the Geffen Playhouse and recently Three Days in the Country at Antaeus Theatre Company. Television: 80 guest star roles including Quark on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Happily married to Kitty Swink for over 35 years—unquestionably his greatest achievement.
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES
EUGENE O’NEILL (Playwright, Hughie) Eugene O’Neill remains the only American playwright to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1936). Born in New York City on October 16, 1888, he wrote some fifty plays. His first Broadway play, Beyond the Horizon (1920), won the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes, the last of which went posthumously to Long Day’s Journey Into Night, which was written in 1940 but not published or produced until three years after his death on November 27, 1953. His plays include Anna Christie (1921), The Hairy Ape (1922), Desire Under the Elms (1924), Strange Interlude (1928), Mourning Becomes Electra (1931), A Touch of the Poet (written 1938-1942 but first produced 1958), The Iceman Cometh (written 1939 but first produced 1946), Hughie (written 1942 but first produced 1958) and A Moon for the Misbegotten (written 1943 but first produced 1947), which takes up the story of the character Jamie a decade later.
SAMUEL BECKETT (Playwright, Krapp’s Last Tape) Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is widely recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Mr. Beckett is most renowned for his play Waiting for Godot, which launched his career in theater. He then went on to write numerous successful full-length plays, including Endgame in 1957, Krapp’s Last Tape in 1958 and Happy Days in 1960. Mr. Beckett received his first commission for radio from the BBC in 1956 for All That Fall. This was followed by a further five plays for radio including Embers, Words and Music and Cascando. Like no other dramatist before him, Mr. Beckett’s works capture the pathos and ironies of modern life yet still maintain his faith in man’s capacity for compassion and survival no matter how absurd his environment may have become.
STEVEN ROBMAN (Director) Steven Robman directed last season’s Geffen Playhouse production of Glen Berger’s Underneath the Lintel. Other recent work in Los Angeles includes stagings of Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness! at A Noise Within, Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler at Antaeus Theatre Company, Sebastian Barry’s The Steward of Christendom at the Mark Taper Forum, Bernard Weinraub’s Above the Fold at Pasadena Playhouse and Kathryn Graf’s The Snake Can at Odyssey Theatre. Other work at the Taper includes Babbitt, Hoagy, Bix and Wolfgang Beethoven Bunkhaus and Made in America. Off-Broadway, he directed premieres of Wendy Wasserstein’s Uncommon Women and Others and Isn’t It Romantic, as well as Ron Hutchinson’s Says I Says He and John Lithgow’s Kaufman at Large at the Phoenix Theatre, Alan Knee’s Santa Anita ’42 and Mr. Knee’s adaptation of The Minister’s Black Veil at Playwrights Horizons, and the New York premiere of Gardner McKay’s Sea Marks at Manhattan Theatre Club. His work in other cities includes the premieres of The Gin Game at Actors Theatre of Louisville and Moonlight and Magnolias and High Holidays GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 11
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, as well as productions of Rat in the Skull at Wisdom Bridge Theatre, Bonjour, La, Bonjour and Right of Way at the Guthrie Theater, Born Yesterday at Baltimore Center Stage, Bosoms and Neglect and Union Boys at Yale Repertory Theatre, and Alphabetical Order, The Rose Tattoo, and The Bathers at Long Wharf Theatre. SIBYL WICKERSHEIMER (Scenic Designer) At the Geffen Playhouse, Sibyl has designed the set for Significant Other directed by Stephen Brackett and for Barbecue directed by Colman Domingo. In 2018, Sibyl designed the sets for BLKS directed by Nataki Garrett at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue directed by Shishir Kurup at the Kirk Douglas Theatre and Oklahoma! directed by Bill Rauch at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Currently Sibyl is designing Julius Caesar directed by Shana Cooper at Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn, NY and Jen Haley’s multimedia play Froggy directed by Matt Morrow. Her regional set design credits include productions at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Seattle Rep, Portland Center Stage, Portland Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, ACT, Arizona Theatre Company, Geffen Playhouse and South Coast Repertory. Sibyl lives and works in Los Angeles, where she is an Associate Professor at the USC School of Dramatic Arts. 12 PLAYBILL
LEAH PIEHL (Costume Designer) Romeo and Juliet (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Halfway to Dawn (Brooklyn Academy of Music); Kings, Once, The Light in the Piazza, Mr. Wolf, The Motherf**ker with the Hat (South Coast Repertory); Underneath the Lintel (Geffen Playhouse); Race, Twist Your Dickens (Kirk Douglas Theatre/Center Theatre Group); The Steward of Christendom (Mark Taper Forum/Center Theatre Group); The Most Deserving (Denver Center for the Performing Arts); Stardust (REDCAT); Intimate Apparel, Pygmalion, The Heiress (Pasadena Playhouse); Arcadia, The Doctor’s Dilemma, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (A Noise Within); Paradise Lost (Intiman Theatre); Bars and Measures, Futura, The Pain and the Itch, Tartuffe (Theatre @ Boston Court); Hedda Gabbler (Antaeus Theatre Company); Saudade (UCLA Live) and Full Still Hungry (Ford Amphitheatre). She designed the feature films All Stars and Buzzkill. Her work has been featured at MOMA, Art Basel Miami and 2010 Whitney Biennial. Piehl has a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley and her M.F.A. in costume design from CalArts. www.leahpiehl.com DANIEL IONAZZI (Lighting Designer) Recent designs for the Geffen Playhouse include Chasing Mem’ries; Letters from a Nut by Ted L. Nancy; Icebergs; Thom Pain (based on nothing); Outside Mullingar; The Night Alive; Reasons to Be Pretty; Ruth Draper’s Monologues; Slowgirl; Build; Yes, Prime
Minister; American Buffalo; The Jacksonian; Radiance; Red Hot Patriot and Superior Donuts. His work has also been seen at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, South Coast Repertory and Denver Center Theatre Company. His design for the New York production of The Jacksonian garnered a Lucille Lortel nomination. He designed the lighting installation for Teatro alla Moda for the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and Trajectoire and Catapult for the dance company Diavolo. His design work can also be seen in the 4-D cinematic experience Beyond all Boundaries at the National World War II Museum. Daniel is Production Manager for the Geffen Playhouse, a member of the faculty of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and Director of Production for the Department of Theater. He is the author of The Stage Management Handbook and The Stagecraft Handbook. CRICKET S. MYERS (Sound Designer) On Broadway, Cricket earned a Tony Nomination and a Drama Desk Award for her design of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Off-Broadway designs include The Marvelous Wonderettes. She has also designed regionally at La Jolla Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Berkley Rep and Arena Stage. Other selected L.A. theaters include
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES East West Players, Ghost Road Theater Company, Celebration Theater and Circle X. She has earned 20 Ovation Nominations, as well as winning the Ruth Morley Award from the League of Professional Theater Women, the Kinetic Award for Outstanding Achievements in Theatrical Design, an LADCC and a Garland Award. www.cricketsmyers.com YOUNG JI (Production Stage Manager) Geffen Playhouse highlights include Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Icebergs, Outside Mullingar, The Night Alive, Reasons to Be Pretty, The Country House, Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen, American Buffalo, The Exorcist, The Jacksonian. NYC: The Jacksonian, Assistant Director (The New Group). Other Los Angeles: Cousin Bette, King Lear, The Autumn Garden (Producer); La Ronde, The Glass Menagerie (Director); Tonight at 8:30, Phaedra (Getty Villa), Mother Courage and Her Children, Pera Palas, Chekhov X 4. Currently the Artistic Coordinator at the Geffen Playhouse. Married to actress/director Jeanie Hackett.
MATT SHAKMAN (Artistic Director) Matt Shakman has directed three highly acclaimed
productions for the Geffen Playhouse: the West Coast premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People, the world premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher’s new adaptation of Wait Until Dark and Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews. His theatrical work has also been seen at Primary Stages in New York and South Coast Repertory. Matt founded and was the artistic director of the Black Dahlia Theatre in Los Angeles, which was named “one of a dozen young American companies you need to know” by American Theatre magazine and “Best Small Theatre” by Los Angeles magazine. Under his leadership, the Black Dahlia garnered numerous Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle and LA Stage Alliance nominations and awards. In 2011, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle awarded him the Milton Katselas Award for Career Achievement in Direction. Matt is also well-regarded for his achievements in television and film. He is a director and producer for FX’s long-running show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and has directed episodes of Game of Thrones (DGA nomination), Mad Men, Fargo and The Good Wife. His feature film debut, Cut Bank, starring John Malkovich, Billy Bob Thornton and Bruce Dern, premiered at the Toronto International and Los Angeles Film Festivals and was released by A24. Shakman is a graduate of Yale University and holds a B.A. in History of Art and Theater.
GIL CATES, JR. (Executive Director) As Executive Director, Gil Cates, Jr. leads the Geffen Playhouse in its mission to inform, entertain and inspire diverse audiences with live theater of the highest caliber—both within and beyond the non-profit theater’s walls. He has proudly served on the Geffen Playhouse Board since 2012. Gil’s theater credits include the award-winning Names (Matrix Theatre Company) starring Dixie Carter and Greg Mullavey, Three Sisters and David Mamet’s A Life in the Theatre (both at Syracuse Stage). Gil’s film credits include The Surface (starring Sean Astin and Geffen Playhouse alumnus Chris Mulkey), Jobs (starring Ashton Kutcher, Josh Gad, Dermot Mulroney, as well as Geffen Playhouse alumni Matthew Modine and Ron Eldard) and the 2011 feature film Lucky (starring Colin Hanks, Ari Graynor, Ann-Margret and Golden Globe winner Jeffrey Tambor). In addition, Gil produced and directed the critically acclaimed Life After Tomorrow, featuring Sarah Jessica Parker, which premiered on Showtime. His other films include Deal (starring Burt Reynolds, Bret Harrison and Charles Durning) and The Mesmerist (starring GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 13
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES Geffen Playhouse alumnus Neil Patrick Harris). Gil’s television directorial debut was an episode of the NBC comedy Joey, starring Emmy winner Matt LeBlanc. He studied at the National Theatre Institute in Waterford, Connecticut, and holds a B.F.A. in Drama from Syracuse University.
REGINA MILLER (Chief Development Officer) Regina Miller has advised non-profit institutions, foundations and corporations on
strategy, analysis and fundraising. She has consulted for Array Alliance, The Entertainment Industry Foundation, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Charlize Theron’s Africa Outreach Project and Kershaw’s Challenge, among others. Prior to the Geffen, Regina worked for the Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance, where she produced an innovative human rights exhibition that traveled to 14 international destinations around Europe, Asia and the U.S. She also served as the Director of Partnerships for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles and the Inland Empire, where she led strategic planning and development while executing policies that advanced the organization’s visibility and growth. Addition-
ally, Regina has a strong passion for teaching. After graduating from University of North Carolina School of the Arts, she taught in preschools and kindergartens in New York. From the age of 13, Regina worked as a professional dancer on Broadway as well as with a number of prominent modern dance ensembles. Fusing two of her interests, she created a highly successful program that incorporated dance therapy and creative movement into an early childhood curriculum as well as writing and producing a television show based on this concept. In addition to being a published author and photographer with Tallfellow Press and Prometheus Books, Regina has taught and lectured at numerous schools in New York, Los Angeles and abroad.
THE NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Supporting artists is central to the mission of the Geffen Playhouse, and play commissions are a cornerstone of that support. To commission a playwright to write a play means making a commitment to their voice, craft and vision, with the hope of sharing the fruits of their work on our stage. The Geffen Playhouse’s New Play Development Program is made possible, in large part, through the leadership and generosity of donations from: The Edgerton Foundation, The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Fay & Frank Mancuso, Sandra Krause & William Fitzgerald, Hilary & Jack Angelo and Mary Bianco, The MOCA Foundation. We are proud to have the following artists under commission: Rachel Bonds Colman Domingo Lindsey Ferrentino Michael Golamco Meghan Kennedy Matthew Lopez Martyna Majok
Michael Mitnick Jiehae Park John Pollono José Rivera Zoe Sarnak Robert Schenkkan Shaka Senghor & Daniel Beaty
Erika Sheffer Jen Silverman Nick Stafford The Vampire Cowboys David Wiener Lauren Yee Anna Ziegler
For more information on this program, please visit geffenplayhouse.org/newplays. 14 PLAYBILL
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ANGELS
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CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE
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Ken Willner & Jim Stine
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Judy & Chancellor Charles E. Young Dirk & Natasha Ziff
ANNUAL DONORS
ARTISTIC CIRCLE $25,000 - $49,999 Anonymous (2) Katie McGrath & J.J. Abrams Hilary & Jack Angelo Robert C. Baral Laurie & Bill Benenson Berlanti Productions Bright Rentals The Rebecca Susan Buffett Foundation Valarie De La Garza & Michael Centeno City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Dwight Stuart Youth Fund The Edward A. & Ai O. Shay Family Foundation Twentieth Century Fox Carol & Paul Frimmer The Rosalinde & Arthur Gilbert Foundation Los Angeles County Arts Commission George Lucas Family Foundation Susan & Peter Mallory Patty Glaser & Sam Mudie Marcia Israel Foundation, Inc. Bradley Mindlin Napa Valley Grille James L. Nederlander & Margo MacNabb Nederlander Sherwood Foundation The Simms/Mann Family Foundation STK Los Angeles Shel & Cynthia Stone Elaine Wynn
PRODUCER $10,000 - $24,999 Anonymous (3) Ariel Investments Hank Azaria Cathy & Shel Bachrach Beam Suntory Beth Behrs & Michael Gladis The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation Charles A. Black, Jr. Bliss Spa Board of Supervisors County of Los Angeles Eileen & Harold Brown Roma Downey & Mark Burnett California Arts Council
The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation Stephanie & Jonathan Carson Janice & Billy Crystal Carole Bayer Sager & Robert A. Daly Merle Dandridge & Christopher Johnston Edward Avedis Dr. & Mrs. Paul Eisenberg Fellow Lisa Field, Field Family Foundation Eric Flamholtz & Yvonne Randle Susan & Mark Fleischer Susan Fleishman The Friedman Group Gagosian Gallery, Inc Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman, Inc. Ann & Jim Gianopulos Goldman Sachs Andy & Carlo Brandon-Gordon Manuela & James Goren Greater Los Angeles New Car Dealers Association Arthur Greenberg Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger, LLP C. Curtis Grisham In Memory of Morris A. Hazan Eva Aaronson & Bucky Hazan Samantha & Eric Heer Jean Himmelstein Stanley Iezman & Nancy Stark Liberty Ross & Jimmy Iovine Julie & David Kavner Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall The Lear Family Foundation The Lowy Family Padma & Rao Makineni Carla Malden & Norman Beil Mona Malden Ginny Mancini Jonathan Manahan Nancy & Michael McClelland Wendy & Barry Meyer Steve McInnes Mary Bianco & The MOCA Foundation Northern Trust, NA Mo Ostin Paradigm Talent and Literary Agency Paramount Pictures Laurie MacDonald & Walter Parkes Popland Studios David Robinson PricewaterhouseCoopers
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DIRECTOR $5,000 - $9,999 Anonymous (2) 1WMN/OCTV Pat & Sandy Adams Jehan F. Agrama & Dwora Fried AMC TV Amgen Foundation Annapurna Pictures Hilaria & Alec Baldwin Mara & Jonathan Blum Yael & Scooter Braun Mara W. Breech Foundation Heather Thomas & Skip Brittenham The Eli & Edythe L. Broad Foundation Cindy & Bob Broder Brotman Foundation of California Amanda Brown & Justin Chang Maya Burkenroad & Tai Lopez Glenn & Lynn Cardoso Marcy Carsey Dr. Fanya Carter, PhD Comcast | NBC Universal Ellyce R. Cooper & Barry Cohen Creative Artists Agency Debra Davis GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 19
ANNUAL DONORS Robin Dearden & Bryan Cranston Deutsche Bank Gayle & Dan Devin Susan & Jonathan Dolgen Dream Warrior Group Fielding Edlow & Larry Clarke Lawrence N. Field Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea G.E. Foundation Jennifer Garner Kiki & David Gindler Priscila Giraldo Sue & Steve Glusker Gloria & Peter Gold Mary Ann & Irwin Gold Lori & Ken Goldman Leo S. Guthman Fund Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Waren, Richman, Rush, Kaller & Gellman LLP ICM Partners Linda Janger Bernice Jeffrey Sir Elton John & David Furnish Marvin Jubas & Janet Wald Jubas Melina Kanakaredes Mannon Kaplan Sally & Dr. Manny J. Karbelnig KIND Bars Sandra Krause & William Fitzgerald Samantha Kurtzman-Counter & Alex Kurtzman Wendy Kurtzman Susan & Yair Landau Drs. Gerald & Barbara Levey Lionsgate Jody Lippman Los Angeles magazine Sherry Martin Anne Stringfield & Steve Martin Merle & Jerry Measer Marcia & Brett Molotsky Kate Moran & Mikki Rosenberg Rio & Frank Morse Newmeyer & Dillion LLP Benedicta & Geoffry Oblath Orlando Hotel Carol & Bill Ouchi Shana & Don Passman Soundis & Danny Passman Cheryl Petersen & Roger Lustberg Pink Sands Club, Canouan Marc Platt The Poker People Mark E. Pollack Pottash/Ferguson Family Foundation Kim & Dale Reed 20 PLAYBILL
Kay & Bob Rehme Judith Reichman, MD Joyce Rey The Richenthal Foundation Jane Rissman & Richard Sondheimer Ronen Levy Events In Memory of Rikki Rosen Lori & David Rousso Jackie & Jeff Schaffer Jody & Arthur Schmid The Michael Schwab Family Carol ‘Jackie’ & Charles Schwartz Steve & Paula Mae Schwartz Tina & David Segel Sidley Austin LLP Lorraine Spurge & Patrick Mitchell Randy Stabler Audri & Stan Tendler Karen Zoller, MD & David Tillman, MD Karen & William Timberlake The Travel Corporation Stan Vashovsky/AMBULNZ Paul Wachter Warner Bros. Entertainment Lynn & Mark Williams Samantha & John Williams Rita Wilson & Tom Hanks Karen & Rick Wolfen Kevyn Wynn In Loving Memory of Herman Ziegler Ruth & Stan Zicklin Ziffren Brittenham LLP Zimmerman Advertising LLC
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PARTNER $1,500 - $2,999 Anonymous Miriam Aguiar Olga S. Alderson Patti & Harlan Amstutz Bonnie & Bill Apfelbaum Bonnie R. Arnold Robert E. & Maria H. Barron Richard Bautzer & David McDowell Eric Baydian Michael Beerman Patricia & Mark Benjamin Gregg Bernstein
ANNUAL DONORS Jamie & Robert Blume Nancy Boxwell Dr. Wallace P. Brithinee Chancellor Albert Carnesale & Mrs. Robin Carnesale Steven Cerasale & Mary Katherine Cocharo Jo Champa William & Patricia Chin Darcy & Dean Christal Richard Clareman In Recognition of Carl & Barbara Cohen Linda & John Coleman Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Ted Cordes In Loving Memory of Ed Cypert Janine Cristiano Pam Dawber & Mark Harmon Danny DeVito & Rhea Perlman Steven Doren Anne Dougherty Rich S. Eisen El San Juan Hotel & Casino in Puerto Rico FENDI Americas Burt & Nanette Forester Jackie Fox Anita Dann Friedman & Harvey Friedman G2 Graphic Service, Inc. Helen & Arthur Geoffrion Charlotte Gold Dr. Irene Goldenberg Louis & Linda Goldsman Helene Gordon Jill Grey Sunny & Alvin Grossblatt Deborah & Allen Grubman The Guerin Foundation Karney Guren Family Foundation Faith Henkin Lysa & Grant Heslov Lynne & Michael Heslov In Honor of Development Lynn Hunt & Margaret Jacob Brian Irving & Dayna Cussler Nancy & Len Jacoby Carrie Johnson Trudy & Albert Kallis Meredith & David Kaplan Willette & Manny Klausner Katherine Kleindienst & Marc Goldsmith Joyce Lederer Lydia & Chuck Levy Elisabeth & Jeffrey Lipsman Jennifer & Robert Lopata Sonia Luna Janis B. McEldowney
Sue McHugh & Herb Seese Catherine Miller Patrice & James Mitchell Jonathan Moonves John Murphy Austin Musick The New York Palace Bruce Nowel Oberheiden & McMurrey, LLP Liza & Conan O’Brien Carol & Alan Ostroff Tara & Robert Pietri Herbert & Marilyn Piken Tom Politowski Ronald Raznick Joyce & Harvey Reichard In Memory of Frances Richman Leslie & Doug Robinson Susie Rome Nancy Stephens & Rick Rosenthal and The Rosenthal Family Foundation Wil Rosser Nancy & Ted Sanborn Susan Schwarz & Stuart Berton Jed Seidel Sempra Engergy Foundation Peggy & Robert Shapiro John & Lori Shaw Joan & Jerry Snyder Snyder Family Foundation Bruce & Patti Springsteen Susan & Donald Starr Mitch & Sherry Stein Nora Stines Patricia Strange Aaron Stroud Tanino Ristorante Rose Tarlow Catherine & Leonard Unger Union Bank Craig Wakehouse Julie & Peter Weil Ophelia & Adam Weiss Gelena & Seth Weissman John & Connie Weston Alison Whalen & Steve Marenberg Betty White William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Chris Williams Fred Wolf Cherie Wrigley Patricia Youngman Elena & Drew Zager Barbara & Stanley Zax Leslie & Robert Zemeckis Ellen & Arnold Zetcher
EDUCATION ADVOCATE $1,000 - $1,499 Anonymous AnonyMoose Foundation Harry & Gay Abrams/Abrams Artists Agency Dr. Richard Ackerman & Miriam Shakter Merryl & David A. Alpert Laura & Harvey Alpert Charitable Foundation Ares Management LLC Margaret Campbell Arvey Judith Ashmann-Gerst & Robert Gerst Russ, August & Kabat Shelley & Rick Bayer Sigrid & Alan Belinkoff Karen Bell & Robb Cox The Belles Family Susan & Eric M. Bender Wendy & John Bergquist Diane & Jim Berliner Sharon & Arthur Berrick John Bjorge & Mary McKelvey Joe Blackstone & Jamie Mohn The Bordy & Leibovic Families Brenda & Alan Borstein Helen Breitwieser & James Jacks Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Prevention Linda & Jerry Bruckheimer The Busch-Schifino Family C&O Trattoria Andrew Carlberg Peg Casey David, Christine & Leah Cates Jane Cates Elena & Jonathan Cates & Family Melissa Cates, Roger Claman & Family David Clark Sachiko T. Cochran MD & Joseph T. Araki Marc Cohen Phil Johnston & Jill Cordes Ruth Daugherty Carolyn Dirks/Brett Dougherty Jan & Thea Drayer Barbara & Ed Dreyfus Dr. & Mrs. William M Duxler In Honor of Education & Community Engagement Colleen M. Ellis Terri & David Elston Ari Emanuel Kristin & Robert Farr Lynne & Michael Feldman Susanna Felleman & Erik Feig Sydney M. Finegold, M.D. Sterling Franklin Ben & Susan Friedman Pat & Sandy Gage
Jeanne & Arnold Geffner Diane & Bruce Gewertz Cherna & Dr. Gary Gitnick Ellie Kitta & Ron Goldie Roz & Abner Goldstine Ellie Goodman Jonathan Greenberg Grey Management, INC. Jack Grossbart & Marc Schwartz Penny Grosz & Eugene Korney Kay Harrington Harris Family Foundation Murray & Gail Heltzer Zvia Hempling Richard Rasiej & Joan Herman Lynda & Neal Hersh Jim Hliboki & Hildi Snodgrass Dr. John D. Hofbauer & Dr. Laura E. Fox Rand Hoffman & Charlotte Robinson Roger & Linda Howard Toni Hoyt Vicki Iovine & David Coiro Victoria Jackson Terry & Marc J. Jacoby Joseph B. Gould Foundation Linda & David Kagel Joyce & Don Kaiserman Marcy Kaplan & Eric Gold Mali Heled Kinberg Barbara & Stuart Klabin Judy Knapp Leslie & Norman Koplof Carol Krause The Kriloff Family Lena & Mark Labowe Barbara & Andrew Leigh Bethany Joy Lenz Cathleen Fitzpatrick Linder Steven & Nancy Lippman Judith Locke Karen & Peter Locke The Jennifer and Greg Malins Foundation Sue & Anthony Marguleas Eric G.C. Mark David Israeli & Dr. Marie Mazzone Jeanne McDonald-Powers & Travis Powers The Miles Family Hillary & Lance Milken Cookie Miller Catherine & Craig Miller Philip & Joan Miller Andrew & Laura Mintzer Joanne & Joel Mogy Thaine & Elizabeth Morris Lon Morse & Toni Hollander Morse Carol & Jerry Muchin Albert & Barbara Nichols Deborah & Stacey Olliff Ornest Family Foundation London, Alex & Marty Padilla GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 21
ANNUAL DONORS Jacalyn & Paul Pepperman Daniel & Denise Perlstein Sari L. Polinger Ruth Popkin Alex Register Rabbi Steven & Didi Carr Reuben Donald B. & Susan F. Rice Carrie & Ken Richman Esther & Howard Richmond Dr. Robert Rigg Judi & Tim Ritchie Beth Roberts & Warren Smith Dolores Rogers Eden & Steven Romick Brad & Nancy Rosenberg David Rosenberg Allison & Bennett Rosenthal Charitable Foundation Virginia Ross Daryl & Steven Roth Philip & Janet Rotner David A. & Karen Richards Sachs Ajay Sahgal Janet Salter In Memory of Maxwell Hillary Salter Mark San Filippo Gerald Sauer Dawn & Joel Scherer Jane & Bill Schopf Toni & John Schulman David Schwartz Foundation, John S. Schwartz Dan & Cynthia Schwartz John Schwartz Phyllis & Martin Shephard Doris & Michael Sherman Sherwood Country Club Rita & Jose Sigal Robin & Robert L. Sills Ron Silverman & Soraya Ross Drs. Matthew & Marion Solomon The Somaini Family Arleen & Llyod Sorkin Jordan Strauss Photography Barbra Streisand & James Brolin David & Katherine Stritzinger Eric Strom & Eileen Goodis Chana Taft The Tatasciore Family Anne C. Taubman & David Boyle John Teeples & Nicolas Martinez, Jr. Barbara & Larry Tenan Andrea & David Tenenbaum Robyn Tenenbaum Nancy Thomas Martin Tobias Triada Palm Springs John Turmes Leon & Stephanie Vahn Daniel & Shauna Valenzuela 22 PLAYBILL
Kathryn & Alan Van Vliet Marcia Williams & Gene Lucero Judith & Philip Winik Jan & Edward Woods Christina Wren Drs. Anna & Stephen Yallourakis Marcie & Howard Zelikow Bobbi & Walter Zifkin
ARTISTIC ADVOCATE $500 - $999 Anonymous (3) Norman & Toshka Abrams Sylvia Almstadt Irene Baron Joanna & Miles Benickes Yvette Bergeron & Dean Bailey Nat & Robin Bernstein Michael J. Bordy Krisena & Scott Borenstein Nina & Hon. Anthony Borwick Rolando Boyce Carol J. Bradshaw Paula Brand Janet & Mark Brown Scott Carter & Bebe Johnson Shelby & Lee Chaden Sandra Chan & Richard Pezner Cindy Clark Becky & Mike Clements Ginger Conrad Shawn Cunningham Robert Daseler Muriel Dance & Alvin Martin Marcia Diamond John Dominguez Roni & Ethan Eller David & Joyce Evans Elizabeth A. Evans Helen Fielding Marjorie & Arthur Fine Judith R. Forman & Richard N. Weiner Gwen & Jacob Friend Lois Gallop Sharlene & Sol Galper Benita & Bert Ginsberg Lori & Robert Goodman Gabi & Rob Greenberg Vicki Greene Roni & David Greenwalt Beverly Hanson Richard Hart Sheila & Chester Hasday Hella Hershon Jack Hileman & Roxanne Huddleston Hilton Union Square hotel Dorothy Hoffman Kelley M. Hogan Brett Johnson Judith & Steaven Jones
Robert Jones Yvonne & Damien Jordan Avi Kamienny Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Kamine Patricia Keating Beverlee Bickmore & James Kelly Dr. Louanne Kennedy Nancy Kenney Dr. Ann & Mr. Jonathan Kirsch Joel Koppelman Deborah Lacusta & Daniel Castellaneta Joan & Christopher Larkin Cristo & Jeanne Lavagnino Marla E. Levine Anita & Burton Levinson Lola Levoy Robin Lewin Tracey Lewin Brenda & Warren Lincoln Joe LoTruglio Dr. Linda Maeder Marcus Mancini Goran Marnfeldt Mr. & Mrs. Phillips H. Marshall Gina Martino Kathy & Jim McCaffery Sue & Monty Mohrman Paula Moseley, EdD Bill Mullins Norma Myers Mark & Diane Neubauer Robert & Anita Nitta Justin Okin Carol Parry & John Fox Pier South Ruth Pilot Astrid & Howard Preston Dr. Stephen & Lani Rabin Gary & Gail Rachelefsky Redbury New York Mildred Reid Carlene Ringer Ronda & Fred Rose Joyce & Dean Ross Blanche & Bruce Joel Rubin Anne Sacks Tawny & Jerry Sanders Chris T. Schmidt Nancy & Steven Schneider Susan & Peter Schwab Janet & Michael Schwartz John H. Scott Nicole Sexton Ed Shaughnessy Carol & Arthur Silbergeld Manish Singh Martin & Leah Sklar Trudy Sokol Irina & Alex Stavchanskiy Arthur Stern Stevens & Associates Cost Reduction Specialists. Inc. William Stringer Alec Sulkin
Mr. & Mrs. David Tann Meg Thomas Marjorie Thomson Ira & Laurie Waldman Bill & Kate Walsh Marcia & Dr. Charles Wasserman Polly & Herb Weinberg Pat West Bruce & Marci Wiseman Anthony P. Zinge
ASSOCIATE $250 - $499 Anonymous (11) Terry & Richard Abrams Barbara Adams Loren Adams Elaine & Michael Agran Geraldine & Harold Alden Charles & Annick Allen Peter Anderson Robert C. Anderson Val Andler Philip Angerhofer & Stephen A. Jones Eloise & Mark Appel Jc & Jack Appelbaum Barbara & Ethan Aronoff Marc & Elizabeth Axelrod Lynne Babbitt Robert Baker Cecilia Ball Elizabeth & Barry Bar-El June Bartczak Judith & Thomas Beckmen Patricia Belcher Katia Benthale & Josh Lewensohn Richard N. Berger Marsha C. Berkowitz Joane Berlin Brian Borello Toby Bornstein Armida Brashears Leah Lynn Broidy Laurrie Brooke Mitchell Brown Diana Buckhantz David & Kathy Burke Marcia Burnam Michelle Butler & Mark Blackham Laura D. Campbell Marlene & David Capell Anthony Carbone Ling Chan Barry Charles Martha Chase Diane Chernansky Lionel Conway Gail Cottingham Susan Georgine Craig Valerie & Donald Cravitz Ingrid Curtiss, MD Beverly D’Angelo
ANNUAL DONORS Col. Tony, Donna & Taylor Daniell Hedva & Dr. Dudley Danoff Steven & Linda Darling Jeffrey S. Davidson Elizabeth De Oliveira & Moacyr Da Silva Bert Deixler Hal & Roberta Delevie Dr. Udayakumar Devaskar Denny & Cathy Dietz Carol Jean Doehring Fred & Marilyn Dorer Sandy & Gerry Dorfman Daryl & Paul F. Doucette Linda Dozier Jacki & Murray Drechsler Chiedu Egbuniwe Ronald Eng Kerry English Lidia & Mauricio Epelbaum Rena & Peter Falk Judy & Mike Fantasia Dr. Francesco Federico Jo & Larry Feldman Mimi Alpert Feldman Abby & Malcolm Field Paul and Karen Finkel Lisa & William Finkelstein Steven Fleenor Keith G. Fleer Lynne & Michael Flynn Fran Fredella & Scott Rubin Sandy & Donald French Carolyn Fried Kenneth J. Friedman & Marilynn J. Friedman Family Foundation Lynn & Barry Friesen Catherine Froloff Laurelle Frome & Brady Frome Gina Furth Lee Gardenswartz Patricia Geffner Leslie & Mort Gerson Linda & Tom Givvin Jill Glasband Dr. Diane & Michael Glazer Richard & Lori Glucksman Hannah Godwin Carol & Neil Goldberg Lorain Goldberg Mark & Molly Goldberg Francine Golden & Marvin Schlossman Ellie & Barry Goldstein Dina Goldstein Jay Gordon & Meyera Robbins Roger Gordon Liz Gottainer & David Sadkin Julie C. Graham, Olivia C. Zeiden, Liam D. Zeiden Shelley Hill Grant Debbie & Glenn Gray Madelyne Green Gary & Jeannie Greenberg Randi & Jerome Greenberg Marcy & Edgar Gross
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Jay & Linda Sandrich Susan & Kenneth Sarno Maxine Savitz Linda & Cliff Schaffer Melanie Scher Malcolm Schneer & Cathy Liu Joel & Sonia Schneider Stanley Schneider Brandon Scott Marc Seltzer Annette & Leonard Shapiro Barbara Vickery & Martin Shapiro Melanie Sharp & Kevin Miller Tom & Judy Sharp Shelly & Greg Sherwin Steven & Annabelle Shulman Seymour & Dorothy Siegel Randi & Rand Singer Linda & Ronald Slates Diane Good & Frank Smith Marcia L. & Mark J. Smith Ronald Smith Karen Smits Christine Sorgi Stephanie Sourapas Melvin Spears Debra Spector M Leslie Stearns Frances & Sy Strasberg Holly Strom Penny Strowger Mr. Kayser Sume & Dr. Renee Sabshin Miriam & Gene Summ Ann Sunderland Lance & Maureen Tan Cathy & Asher Thompson Ann Thorvik Judy & Art Tompkins Joyce & Josh Trabulus Brigitta Troy Dr. Gerald D. Turbow Dr. Harold Urman Deborah Valdez Erich Van Lowe Anthony Vasek Carole Wagner-Vallianos & Peter Vallianos Elisa Wayne Sherry Weinman & Michael Umansky Bruce Whizin Baker Wiles Lawrence Will Karen & Gary Winnick Dr. Joseph Wu Marlow Wyatt Kimberly & Andrew Zakanych Arnold & Tricia Zane Lynn & Meir Ziv Sandy Zwirn
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Matt Shakman
Gil Cates, Jr.
Artistic Director
Executive Director
ARTISTIC Amy Levinson Associate Artistic Director
Mark San Filippo Associate Director of Planned Giving & Donor Relations
Celia Rivera Assistant Box Office Manager Clifton Adams, Vaneh Assadourian, Britney Campbell, Zoe Halsne, Lexy McAvinchey, Sam Peurach, Jonathan Ramos, Cameron Reck, Bryn Woznicki Box Office Staff
Phyllis Schuringa Artistic Associate / Casting Director
Taylor Cerny Development Associate
Young Ji Artistic Coordinator / Company Manager
Jessie Sherman Development Assistant
Rachel Wiegardt-Egel Manager of New Play Development
EDUCATION
Sue Fleishman Communications Consultant
PRODUCTION
Jennifer Zakkai Director of Education & Community Engagement
FRONT OF HOUSE
Daniel Ionazzi Production Manager Jill Barnes Associate Production Manager / Company Manager Sam Craven-Griffiths Technical Director Rich Gilles Properties Master James Grabowski House Sound Supervisor
Joannarae Ibañez Education Coordinator Celia Rivera Community Engagement Coordinator Brian Allman, Darien Battle, Ramy El-Etreby, David Guerra, Michael McClain, Robert Paterno, Carissa Pinckney, Tara Ricasa, Celia Rivera, Jessica Winward Teaching Artists
Darren Rezowalli Lighting & Video Supervisor
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Ramine Ameli Assistant Lighting Supervisor
Patrick Brown Director of Marketing
Liz Rose Wardrobe Supervisor
ADMINISTRATION
Karen Gutierrez Director of Advertising & Audience Development
Behnaz Ataee Chief Financial Officer
Brian Dunning Director of Content & Creative
Peter Banachowski Senior Accountant & Financial Analyst
Zenon Dmytryk Director of Public Relations
Kisha Wilson Payroll Specialist & Staff Accountant
Zack Hamra Associate Director of Audience Services & Ticketing
Clay Dzygun Office Coordinator Marguerite Harris Receptionist
DEVELOPMENT Regina Miller Chief Development Officer Ellen Catania Senior Vice President of Development Jessica Brusilow Rollins Director of Education Partnerships & Donor Relations Jamie Mikelich Director of Individual Giving & Spotlight Manager
Kevin O’Brien Marketing Manager Quinn Francis Outreach Coordinator Ramon Garcia Video Producer
Jeni Pearsons Director of Special Events Mel Yonzon Front of House Manager Amy Farkas Lead Concierge Isaac Jay, Nathaniel Meek, Anya Pryjmack, Madison Shamoun, Dennis Woullard House Managers Kailey Bray, Ryan Brophy, Danie Hakimi, Jada Harris, Elza Hofeld, Lucy Houlihan, Otniel Henig, Hunter Lowden, Olivia Lowe, Austin Merrill, Keith Mitchell, JoJo Nwoko, Thea Paino, Chuck Soo-Hoo, Charley Stern, Charmee Taylor, Adam Turney, Isaac Vaughn, Robin Vega Ushers Rob Mersola Bar Manager & Mixologist Manuel Mayorga Weekend Bar Manager Skylar Adams, Adam Carr, Brenda Davidson, Sarah Drescher, Ryan Turner Bartenders/Event Staff
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Karim Bouzzit System Administrator
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
Kristina Leach Social Media Associate
Miguel del Castillo Facility Manager
Wendell Pascual Production Artist
Mario Santillan-Perez Custodial
Janice Bernal Box Office Manager
Juan Carlos Umaña Cleaning Custodial
Alyssa Tyson Box Office Manager
Camerina Martinez Cleaning Custodial
Geffen Playhouse is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. This project was also funded in part by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles. Geffen Playhouse, a not-for-profit theater company, is proudly affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles.
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AUDREY SKIRBALL KENIS THEATER
Major support for this world premiere production provided by the Edgerton Foundation New Play Production Fund A grant from The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation is providing support for this production
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